* Banana Pi BPI-R4 support?
@ 2023-11-22 20:34 Attila Lendvai
2023-11-23 23:09 ` Wilko Meyer
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From: Attila Lendvai @ 2023-11-22 20:34 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: guix-devel
dear Guix,
i'm hoping to run Guix on this Arm Corex-A73 board:
https://wiki.banana-pi.org/Banana_Pi_BPI-R4
MediaTek MT7988A (Filogic 880)
i'm clueless about how to add support for a new platform to guix, but i'm experienced in guile, and in hacking near the metal.
with that in mind: how hard/hopeless would this task be? both 1) technically (if we ignore any possible use of blobs), and also 2) regarding the FSDG standard?
i don't see any mention of MT7988A here:
https://trustedfirmware-a.readthedocs.io/en/latest/index.html
https://review.trustedfirmware.org/admin/repos/TF-A/trusted-firmware-a,general
i'd appreciate some bird's eye view insights before i get lost in a pointless struggle.
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* Re: Banana Pi BPI-R4 support?
2023-11-22 20:34 Banana Pi BPI-R4 support? Attila Lendvai
@ 2023-11-23 23:09 ` Wilko Meyer
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From: Wilko Meyer @ 2023-11-23 23:09 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Attila Lendvai; +Cc: guix-devel
Hi Attila,
Attila Lendvai <attila@lendvai.name> writes:
> MediaTek MT7988A (Filogic 880)
I don't know too much about the Filogic 880, but from my experience the
number of SBC platforms that work entirely on free software is sadly
pretty sparse.
> with that in mind: how hard/hopeless would this task be? both 1)
> technically (if we ignore any possible use of blobs), and also 2)
> regarding the FSDG standard?
Technically it *could* be as easy as easy as building an image around a
custom u-boot variant package and a linux-libre-arm64-generic kernel
package. There are some examples for this in the gnu/system/images
(rock64 and some other iirc) and gnu/system/examples (for beaglebone
black at least) tree of guixes repository for reference. Realistically
my guess would be that you'd run into firmware/binary blob issues and
GNU FSDG issues rather quickly.
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Kind regards,
Wilko Meyer
w@wmeyer.eu
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